Warner Bros. plans vinyl reissues of Prince's 1985-1992 albums

If you’re scouring your local record stores and eBay looking for Prince albums on vinyl at newly inflated prices, Warner Bros. seems to have a message for you: Let’s not go crazy.

Prince’s heyday-era record label is set to release nine of his biggest post-“Purple Rain” titles newly pressed to wax this year, starting with “Around the World in a Day” on June 21. One or two albums will be released per month after that in the order they were originally released (or at least in the order recorded; see: “The Black Album”).

Amazon and other retails sites are now offering pre-sale orders starting around $20 for the new editions, which will also include the acclaimed “Sign o’ the Times” and the big commercial hits “Parade,” “Diamonds and Pearls” and the “Batman” soundtrack.

This vinyl reissue campaign was already in the works before Prince’s death, and started with a remastered version of his 1978 debut album “For You,” timed to Record Store Day on April 16. It seems Warner Bros. is expediting the rest of the series in the wake of his death -- shrewd business, sure, but also undeniably good news for music lovers. The label had already pressed new vinyl editions of “Purple Rain,” “1999,” “Dirty Mind” and “Controversy” in 2011 (still widely available), so it skipped ahead to his late-‘80s and early-‘90s records.

Some of the albums in this particular batch fall in the era when CD sales took over the industry, and Warners and the other big record companies made little to no vinyl editions of the records. These new pressings will feature the albums in their original format (no bonus tracks). Here’s the full list of what’s to come: